Sermon Tone Analysis

Purpose:

I rose this morning to persuade this body of believers to emulate the man in this parable by reaping the harvest in an immediate way.

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INTRODUCTION

I submit to you this morning that what threatens that today is laziness.

The Bible has something to say about lazy person calling them slothful or a sluggard.

‎The collection of maxims which forms the central portion of the Book of Proverbs, closes in the twenty-fourth chapter with the celebrated parable of the “Field of the Slothful” ()

No doubt this constant warning against idleness was especially necessary in the tropic land of Palestine.

We find the theme taken up again, sarcastically, showing the excuses and pretenses of the lazy man.

‎“And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

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SERMONIC CLAIM

‎“Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

It is possible to miss the harvest because of sleeping on it.

The text finds JESUS continuing to teach in Galilee.

He is still talking in a very strange code language that everybody can’t understand.

He returns to his original story about the sower and seems to expand on it.

This time He says the sower sowed the seed, went to sleep at night and got up in the morning and in the course of time the seed grew into a great crop, which when the time was right, the sower became the reaper of the harvest.

Notice if you will that he does not reap the crop too soon, nor does he reap too late; but when the crop permits.

There a few things that stand out in this parable that suggest to us today that must reap the harvest as soon as it is ready.

Can I just cut across the field this morning and point to the word immediately

SEED TIME AND HARVEST

In the parable Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil (v.

26).

We already know that He is an indiscriminate and gracious sower and seed goes everywhere.

But, one thing more marks this man: he knows that you reap what you sow.

People seem to forget this truth: that what you sow is coming up again.

God has designed it that way that if there is a seedtime there has got to be a harvest.

This is the pro

When Noah and his family had finally gotten off the Ark, he built an altar and worshipped God.

When the Lord smelled the sweet aroma of the sacrifice, He made this promise to Noah:

Can I help somebody right here?

if you know that harvest is coming, shouldn’t you be diligent enough to

TOO MUCH SLEEP IS NOT GOOD

‎“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

‎“So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”

‎Doubtless this constant warning against idleness was specialty necessary in the tropic land of Palestine.

We find the theme taken up again, sarcastically, showing the excuses and pretenses of the lazy man.

“The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

‎“As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

‎The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

‎“The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.”